Wasatch High School in Heber City, about 50 miles from Salt Lake City, is under fire after it altered the images of some students to show less skin. The school never notified the students before resorting to Photoshop.

@unclesmrgol - having lived in the Middle East, among people who DEMAND that any woman who step outside her home be dressed in burqa, I can assure you that the mindset of these school officials probably does bear far more similarity to the Taliban than they would like us to know. Nonetheless, I...

According to local media reports, some photos were edited to apparently protect the girls’ modesty: sleeves were added and in another, a neckline was strategically raised. For some students, it was the arbitrary nature of the adjustments that rankled.

“‘I feel like they put names in a hat and pick and choose who,” sophomore Rachel Russel told WGHP. Russel’s original picture showed her in a sleeveless top, but in the yearbook version, she has black sleeves.

“There were plenty of girls [who] were wearing thicker tank tops and half of them got edited and half of them didn't,” she said.

Students raised the issue with high school administrators, who said the yearbook couldn't be changed after printing.

Wasatch County School District Supt. Terry E. Shoemaker defended the general decision to edit images for modesty. He told reporters that students knew there was a dress code and there was a sign warning them that their pictures may be altered.

Shoemaker did acknowledge the school should have taken a more consistent approach.

“We only apologize in the sense that we want to be more consistent with what we're trying to do in that sense we can help kids better prepare for their future by knowing how to dress appropriately for things,' Shoemaker said.

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